At the 2026 Annual SORA Research Symposium, students presented their in-progress and completed research work.
March 23
Panel 1: Socialization, Identity, and Everyday Interaction
Annik Julien | Bien connaître les enfants : l’animation périscolaire comme travail éducatif de connectivité
Meije Lauret | L’autonomie politique des jeunes scouts des classes supérieures : apprendre à négocier et transgresser les règles
Liam Driesmans | “Spaces of validation”": Little Saigon of Chicago
Christine Hier | Women with buzz cuts
Léo le Roux | You do not have to remain silent: Speaking up about sexual violence in the field
Panel 2: Space, Environment, and Territorial Change
Rebekka Godskesen | Green urban development and gentrification
Cléo Fouilloux-Roche | Articuler les identités et les espaces urbains des « migrants » — enquête au sein de la ville de Grenoble
Romain Giret | L’Armée française d’Orient en Macédonie (1915-1916)
Pascal Morimanno | Region over Country?: Regional identity as a determinant of vote choice in Canada
Pedro Graterol | Political satire as symbolic resistance
March 24
Panel 3: Democracy, Participation, and Public Institutions
Nadeen Jumai'an | Workplace politics
Baptiste Méot | Municipal election campaign strategies
Lauritz Elias Gaard | Democracy interpretation in Gambia
Helena Cravinho | Austerity reforms and Portugal’s troïka
Sabrina Boschi | The inverted Europeanization: The recentralization of cohesion policy and EU funds in Italy
Panel 4: Conflict, Media, Populism, and the International Order
Riya Anand | Republican media diets and realignment post-January 6
Apostolis Koutsoumpas | Political psychology in IR theory
Dien-Ying Yang | Populist convergence? The positions of the Rassemblement National and La France Insoumise on major foreign policy issues related to Russia and China
Matthieu Leroy-Bonnin | The accommodative strategy of the Danish social-democratic party between 2022 and 2024
Joseph Lamerens | Institutionnaliser l’agriculture locale face à la concurrence mondialisée : Les cas du piment d’Espelette et de l’Ossau-Iraty au Pays Basque nord